NATION OF STAMPEDES
...Nature did not unleash her terror on us
as it did with Noto, Haiti, or the Indian Ocean.
We abuse nature with the stamp of leadership which impedes lives,
causing artificial stampedes of ...
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Categories:
polity, abuse, corruption, food, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Electorate on tenterhooks until
...Electorate on tenterhooks until...
outcome of 2024 presidential election announced
Polling places slated to open seven o'clock
in the morning
November fifth two thousand twenty four
heightene...
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Categories:
polity, america, anger, anxiety, autumn,
Form: Free verse
Clash of the Worlds
...World 1: To our people is what we owe our duty.
World 2: To our god is what we owe our duty.
World 3: To our struggle, we owe it to ourselves.
The following three worlds have always fought but the...
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Categories:
polity, anxiety, dedication, deep, destiny,
Form: Prose
dear mr president
...
DEAR MR PRESIDENT*
Mr President
We used to pledge our allegiance to the motor one Zambia one nation
we believed the mystery of no sex Before marriage
But sex seems to...
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Categories:
polity, political,
Form: Dramatic Verse
America's Slow Walk to Dictatorship
...The Founders' fear of tyranny
informed their choice of polity.
They chose a form of government,
founded on the people’s power.
They acknowledged the hand of God,
in battles fought and victori...
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Categories:
polity, culture, freedom, history, identity,
Form: Free verse
I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome
...I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome...
Whereby yours truly presages and doth abhor
nothing short of an imminent civil war
dwarfing insurrection on January 6, 2021
oddly enough e...
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Categories:
polity, abuse, america, anger, animal,
Form: Free verse
The Devil's Domain
...The archangel turned imposter,
sought a rival reign to foster.
Through a scheme steeped in deception,
he received a good reception.
With his hosts of loyal subjects,
his newfound muscle he did...
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Categories:
polity, christian, courage, dark, evil,
Form: Rhyme
On Left Right Politics
....
A sinking feeling
In the City of Djinns
...Pollution is down by 20 % this year
One reason given is economic slowdown
Happy souls- worlds second most populous
A free liberal atmosphere d...
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Categories:
polity, analogy, political,
Form: Concrete
The Dream
...In 1963, Martin Luther King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.
What he asked for should not have been a far reach.
Dr. King was rather unique
And boy did he like to speak
He spoke on equality a...
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Categories:
polity, america, black love, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
What the World Needs
...What the world needs today is frivolity
Benign silliness of the highest quality,
Mixed in with various country’s polity
Will clearly enhance the planet’s jollity.
FIRST PLACE WINNER
"BEST MONO...
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Categories:
polity, humor, silly, world,
Form: Monorhyme
Blood and Sweat
...The tirade of the tyrant
Has subdued the trident
Gloating over the viceroy
It's the blood and sweat of
victory.
The subdued voice of defeat
Veiled in unapologetic defiance
Shedding secr...
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Categories:
polity, anxiety, character, dark,
Form: Elegy
True, a Myth-And-A-Half Ever Since Dim Antiquity
...True, a Myth-and-a-half ever since dim Antiquity
“Breathes there the Man with Soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said
This is my own, my Native Land”
True, a myth-and-a-...
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Categories:
polity, leadership, people, vanity,
Form: Political Verse
In Plain Sight
...The hood is foregone.
Into the past, of fired crucifixes upon front lawns.
The day has begun, a new dawn.
Bare faced, in the sun's illumination.
Guised within the roles that make a nation.
...
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Categories:
polity, america, racism,
Form: Free verse
Electorate On Tenterhooks Until
...Electorate on tenterhooks until...
outcome of 2020 presidential election announced
Polling places slated to open seven o'clock
in the morning November third two thousand twenty
heightened tensi...
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Categories:
polity, 12th grade, bullying, change,
Form: Free verse
Sham Cum Shame
...They say the virus does not exist. Why?
our leaders politicize its mortality
profiteers make it a minted and crispy business
rumour mongers carry myths of it across the Nile
and the poor are to i...
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Categories:
polity, africa, corruption, depression, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
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